Failed, nclex rn 5 times! Help?!?!

[lystacy]

EVERYONE I need all the advice, suggestion, and help as much as possible! So I am completely bum-out and am starting to feel maybe I'm just not meant for a RN (as I am told by some people). I have just taken the NCLEX-RN and it's been more than 24 hours and am pretty confident that I FAILED it. I am trying to gather all my strength but it is so tough to get all that courage again. Starting to feel really discouraged! Has anyone taken their NCLEX-RN recently that FAILED 5 TIMES LIKE ME? Or, am I the only one?! I will tell you that I have taken the NCSBN 15 week course (didn't exactly finish all the practice questions), but reviewed all the contents in there as well as questions in both the Saunder and Lipprocotts booklet that relate to those contents reviewed both right and wrong rationales and even jotted down notes to review before the exam. With a part-time job, mother, and wife I put about 3 months into this whole reviewing/studying contents etc. to make sure I went in with confident to pass this exam but in the end, I still didn't. I feel like I'm running out of choices here. The exam I took had about 3 SATA, no math, 2-3 really long paragraph (about 3-4 sentences long, which I thought I was in the passing level, perhaps?) and the rest was just about 1-2 sentence long. I didn't even make it pass 75 questions. That's terrible!!!! For those that have passed the nclex rn did you rec'd a lot of questions in paragraph form like 3-4 sentences long? Or perhaps 2-3? I'm sure 1-2 was just below or near the passing level. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE... I need the help all I can get what I can do differently, review differently etc. Anything will be GREATLY appreciated! Sounds really desperate but I am determine to pass this next time and if I don't I have no idea how to move on...

[BLAKEY2005]

I agree with Miss_Chell. Contact Joan and she will definitely help you. I pass on my 5th attempt and i use all her strategies along with Kaplan.

[medicineman2004, BSN, RN]

HOW I PASSED the NCLEX-RN AFTER 75-QUESTIONS

Sorry to hear that you're thinking that you didn't pass again. Here's what happened when I took my NCLEX and then I'll tell you how you can do it too! As we all know, the NCLEX adaptive testing programing gives from between 75 & 265 questions. However, IF it automatically shuts off after 75 questions, you're either answering too many questions incorrectly within a brief time so there's no point continuing, or you're answering so many questions correctly because it's detecting high probability that you've got this and so there's also no point continuing. In taking it, it was shocking when it shut me out at 75. For a panicked moment I wondered, "oh s#%t, did I just totally blow it, or did I just get my RN?" THAT moment I will never forget as long I live! So I quickly reviewed my scribblenotes written during the test and realized, "Well, I know I got that one right fer sure, and probably that one, and that one, and that one...". Breaking the sacred test hall silence when it finally dawned on me that I was almost sure about getting most of them right, I involuntarily let out a "Yeeeesss."

This is what I did & everyone can do it too:

#1) go get the book NCLEX-RN Made Incredibly Simple. OMG! How often I wished I had this book on day-1 of nursing school. It was like looking at the exact condensed test prep for every exam I ever took in nursing school! On its pages I added many many of my own study prep nuggets gathered together from all my own school notes.

#2) I paid for an online test prep course created by the organization that makes the actual NCLEX-RN test itself, which is the National Council of State Boards of nursing (NSCBN.org). If you do this, and I recommend you do, at the end of this prep course (which I recall you can take again & again) will be offered the option to take experimental NCLEX test questions that they're considering for the real NCLEX. I thought, "what the heck, since I already paid for this I might as well check out their experimental test questions too." So,there was this one experimental question that I got wrong when really I thought I got it right. They gave me explanation why my answer was wrong & what the right answer was & why the right answer was the right answer. THE FOLLOWING I'M NOT MAKING UP! This one particular experimental question that I pondered and dwelled upon was on my actual NCLEX exam that I took VERBATIM. When I saw that question and realized where I'd seen it before and that I already knew the answer I thought, "OMG!" I don't know if this will happen to you or to anybody else, but it did happen to me.

#3) I paid for and took a 2-day NCLEX test prepping course. This was some years ago so I don't remember the name of the group or organization, but there were probably 8-12 other students in the class with me. What I do recall, though, was I waited too long to sign up. These kinds of prep courses are commonly and locally available within the month or two AFTER graduation, after the end of the academic year. After my graduation, I was burnt out and left the country for a long vacation. Upon returning I still procrastinated. When I finally decided to register, there weren't any test prep courses happening anywhere within the entire New England area. The closest one was in Pennsylvania, so I went to Pennsylvania. It was worth it.